Open-source name variants database

I’ve developed an open-source name-variants database. We’re currently using it at WeRelate.org. This is a better algorithm than Soundex for matching variant names like Ann, Anna, Annah, Anne, Annie, etc. It results in a 28% reduction in missed variants compared to soundex, based upon a set of 100,000 pairs of names provided by Ancestry.com. I’ll be giving a talk on it at RootsTech next week. The source code and database are freely available on Gitbub.